Di Alexander Migursky. Originale: Alienation, Deprivation, and Play, del 24 ottobre 2025. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Quando cerchiamo di dare una spiegazione alla paralisi morale che colpisce l’energia rivoluzionaria indispensabile alla nostra sopravvivenza collettiva, un’energia inesistente negli angusti spazi ideologici del realismo democratico, quasi di riflesso torniamo al concetto marxista di alienazione. Un concetto…

In trying to understand the moral paralysis that undermines the revolutionary energy so essential to our collective survival—an energy that has no real place within the narrow ideological confines of democratic realism—we find ourselves returning, almost reflexively, to the Marxist concept of alienation. This idea addresses more than just economic conditions; it speaks to the…

A little ways into The Utopia of Rules, an anarchist critique of state and corporate bureaucracy, author David Graeber asks, “Why are we so confused about what police really do?” It’s an important question, as the problem of police violence and impunity in America can no longer be ignored. For far too long, argues Graeber,…